The lawyers who made America : from Jamestown to the White House / Anthony Arlidge, QC.
2017
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Title
The lawyers who made America : from Jamestown to the White House / Anthony Arlidge, QC.
Published
Oxford, UK ; Portland, Oregon : Hart Publishing, 2017.
Call Number
KF353 .A75 2017
ISBN
9781509906369 (hardback : alk. paper)
1509906363 (hardback : alk. paper)
9781509906390 (ePDF)
9781509906383 (ePub)
1509906363 (hardback : alk. paper)
9781509906390 (ePDF)
9781509906383 (ePub)
Description
xiii, 213 pages ; 25 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)958460964
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-206) and index.
Available in Other Form
Online version: Arlidge, Anthony, author. Lawyers who made America Portland, Oregon : Hart Publishing, 2017 9781509906383 (DLC) 2016059676
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Purchased from the income of the Murray Fund
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The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the Murray Fund
Table of Contents
Foreword
v
Preface
vii
Timeline
xi
1.
Prologue: Walter Raleigh
1
2.
Maps and Explorers: Richard Hakluyt
5
3.
Virginia Company: John Popham
11
4.
Democracy: Edwyn Sandys
18
5.
Religion and Liberty: Nathaniel Ward
22
6.
Toleration: Cecil Calvert and William Penn
28
7.
Representation: James Otis Junior
35
8.
Common Law: William Blackstone
43
9.
Penman of the Revolution: John Dickinson
51
10.
Revolution: John Adams
61
11.
Independence: Thomas Jefferson
75
12.
Constitution: John Rutledge
87
13.
Bill of Rights: Roger Sherman and James Madison
98
14.
Nationhood: Alexander Hamilton
108
15.
Consolidation: John Marshall
120
16.
Slavery Abolished: Abraham Lincoln
132
17.
World Stage: Woodrow Wilson
144
18.
Legal Dynamism: Oliver Wendell Holmes Junior and Louis Brandeis
159
19.
Social Intervention: Earl Warren
168
20.
President Under the Law: Archibald Cox and Richard Nixon
179
21.
Glass Ceiling: Sandra O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg
185
22.
Epilogue: Barack Obama
190
Appendix: First Fourteen Amendments to the United States Constitution
195
Bibliography
201
Index
207